1) Editorial
Hoffman, J. (2015, August 24). Square Root of Kids’ Math Anxiety: Their Parents’ Help. The New York Times.
This article focuses on math anxiety and the effect of parents having math anxiety on a students learning ability. When math-anxious parents help their kids with their math homework at a young age they often get frustrated with the homework, which causes frustration in the student as well. Studies showed the more math-anxious parents helped their kids with their homework, the worse the kids did in math. This article showed the causes of some students’ math anxiety and also explained certain effects of students with math anxiety.
The idea of the cause and effect of anxiety on students is greatly shown in this article, specifically focusing on math. This helps my research because it elaborates on how there is an effect on students that have math anxiety. For decades researchers have looked at the effects of math anxiety, some of the studies show it can afflict 10 to 20 percent of adults. Math anxiety affects students test taking, regular daily lives and, for some, self esteem. Some ways it affects regular daily lives of kids is a simple task such as baking a cake. If one has to double or halve a recipe it can cause them to shut down and choose to just not bake that cake. For test taking purposes, if the math problem involves thinking and memory, the math-anxious student’s memory is so consumed by anxiety and worry that they don’t have enough left to just do the math. The effects of math anxiety are negative toward a student.
2) Magazine Berl, Rachel Pomerance. (2015, October 7). Schools Are Now Teaching Kids – And Their Parents – How To Deal With Stress. The Washington Post.
This article talks a lot about how mental health of students is an important factor of their lives. Berl discusses how having a “peace teacher” in a school is effective for students to teach them to focus on themselves and learn to take a step back from stress of school and reset their minds. The pressure on students starts at a very young age and only continues to grow from there. Because of this we are seeing high levels of anxiety and depression in kids. The article focuses on the program called minds, a group that teaches students about mindfulness to boost kids emotional awareness. According to this article the program has helped many kids in school and in extra curricular activities such as sports.
This article is helpful for my research because it shows the effects of testing and pressure on students. Testing begins in elementary school and the pressure to do demanding extra curricular activities; this causes kids to feel overwhelmed. Studies have shown that students with lower levels of stress are better able to learn and focus. This means that when kids are stressed it ends up affecting their school work.
3) Scholarly or professional journal Hase, C. N., Goldberg, S. B., Smith, D., Stuck, A., & Campain, J. (2015). IMPACTS OF TRADITIONAL BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. Psychology In The Schools, 52(6), 607-617.
This article focuses on bullying in its different forms. Cyber bullying has become a huge deal in recent years because of how quickly technology has been growing. Traditional bullying is described as an aggressive behavior toward another person to purposely harm them that occurs repeatedly. Cyber bullying is bullying through electronics. This has been linked to academic problems, depression, social anxiety, reduced self-esteem, and an increase in substance use. There is at times an overlap of both cyber bullying and traditional bullying, a student may be cyber bullied and then the bullying continues in person when in school.
My research is greatly helped by this article because it explains the affects of bullying on students in school. According to the article, adolescents that are bullied, miss more school and show more signs of poorer school achievement. Cyber bullying has led to academic problems and other things such as depression and anxiety. If a student feels that they are being threatened by someone over the Internet and then has to go to school and deal with the bully it creates an unsafe learning environment for the student. Instead of focusing on their school work they are focusing on being victimized by bullies.
4) Scholarly or professional journal Crundwell, R. A., & Killu, K. (2010). Responding to a Student's Depression. Educational Leadership, 68(2), 46-51.
This article elaborates on the broad topic of depression. It focuses specifically on one example of a girl with depression. Rita has been on a downward spiral throughout her first semester at the largest high school she has attended. Rita talks with her history teacher about how she feels isolated and anxious about her schoolwork and the demands of high school. The article talks about how she feels she has no one to turn to and it affects her schoolwork and social life. Depression in kids in high school or at a young age is difficult to know about because they don’t seek for help because they feel that no one cares about the way they feel.
There are many effects of Rita’s depression that are helpful toward my research. School personnel play a huge role in identifying depression. Teachers, administrators, and school staff in general must be knowledgeable about depression because of how much it can affect academic and interpersonal behavior at school. Depression is significantly correlated with academic grades. According to this article, students with higher ratings of depression are more likely to not graduate high school. Depressed students give up more quickly on difficult tasks.
5) Report from reputable database
Hosansky, D. (2004, February 13). Youth suicide. CQ Researcher, 14, 125-148. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/
The main focus of this article is suicide. It explains the suicide rates and how they have gone up when it comes to young people. In recent years about 2,800 people have killed themselves between the ages 10-21 annually. Of those 2,800 about 1,600 fall within the ages of 15-19, when one is most emotional being that they are in the prime years of their teens. One in five high school students have at least thought about committing suicide while a third of that number has actually attempted. Many kids throughout high school experience some sort of rejection, whether its failing an exam, getting dumped by their significant other, or not making a sports team if they mix the feeling of rejection with their impulsivity the result at times becomes suicide. This article is on an extremely upsetting topic, but also a great topic to be informed about.
This article benefits my research but more generally my group’s research. Suicide remains the third leading cause of death among 15-21 year olds, this means that more teenagers are dying at their own hands rather than from a disease of some sort. Suicidal youngsters are hard to recognize and difficult to treat. Few schools have programs that help counsel emotionally disturbed kids, and most parents, teachers and friends think that the child is just being a normal emotional teenager. Although the article does not directly mention how it is affecting students academics, one can infer, from the other articles I have read about, that the stresses and anxiety that school often puts on a child does not benefit this situation and can only damage their capability of succeeding in school.
Hoffman, J. (2015, August 24). Square Root of Kids’ Math Anxiety: Their Parents’ Help. The New York Times.
This article focuses on math anxiety and the effect of parents having math anxiety on a students learning ability. When math-anxious parents help their kids with their math homework at a young age they often get frustrated with the homework, which causes frustration in the student as well. Studies showed the more math-anxious parents helped their kids with their homework, the worse the kids did in math. This article showed the causes of some students’ math anxiety and also explained certain effects of students with math anxiety.
The idea of the cause and effect of anxiety on students is greatly shown in this article, specifically focusing on math. This helps my research because it elaborates on how there is an effect on students that have math anxiety. For decades researchers have looked at the effects of math anxiety, some of the studies show it can afflict 10 to 20 percent of adults. Math anxiety affects students test taking, regular daily lives and, for some, self esteem. Some ways it affects regular daily lives of kids is a simple task such as baking a cake. If one has to double or halve a recipe it can cause them to shut down and choose to just not bake that cake. For test taking purposes, if the math problem involves thinking and memory, the math-anxious student’s memory is so consumed by anxiety and worry that they don’t have enough left to just do the math. The effects of math anxiety are negative toward a student.
2) Magazine
Berl, Rachel Pomerance. (2015, October 7). Schools Are Now Teaching Kids – And Their Parents – How To Deal With Stress. The Washington Post.
This article talks a lot about how mental health of students is an important factor of their lives. Berl discusses how having a “peace teacher” in a school is effective for students to teach them to focus on themselves and learn to take a step back from stress of school and reset their minds. The pressure on students starts at a very young age and only continues to grow from there. Because of this we are seeing high levels of anxiety and depression in kids. The article focuses on the program called minds, a group that teaches students about mindfulness to boost kids emotional awareness. According to this article the program has helped many kids in school and in extra curricular activities such as sports.
This article is helpful for my research because it shows the effects of testing and pressure on students. Testing begins in elementary school and the pressure to do demanding extra curricular activities; this causes kids to feel overwhelmed. Studies have shown that students with lower levels of stress are better able to learn and focus. This means that when kids are stressed it ends up affecting their school work.
3) Scholarly or professional journal
Hase, C. N., Goldberg, S. B., Smith, D., Stuck, A., & Campain, J. (2015). IMPACTS OF TRADITIONAL BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. Psychology In The Schools, 52(6), 607-617.
This article focuses on bullying in its different forms. Cyber bullying has become a huge deal in recent years because of how quickly technology has been growing. Traditional bullying is described as an aggressive behavior toward another person to purposely harm them that occurs repeatedly. Cyber bullying is bullying through electronics. This has been linked to academic problems, depression, social anxiety, reduced self-esteem, and an increase in substance use. There is at times an overlap of both cyber bullying and traditional bullying, a student may be cyber bullied and then the bullying continues in person when in school.
My research is greatly helped by this article because it explains the affects of bullying on students in school. According to the article, adolescents that are bullied, miss more school and show more signs of poorer school achievement. Cyber bullying has led to academic problems and other things such as depression and anxiety. If a student feels that they are being threatened by someone over the Internet and then has to go to school and deal with the bully it creates an unsafe learning environment for the student. Instead of focusing on their school work they are focusing on being victimized by bullies.
4) Scholarly or professional journal
Crundwell, R. A., & Killu, K. (2010). Responding to a Student's Depression. Educational Leadership, 68(2), 46-51.
This article elaborates on the broad topic of depression. It focuses specifically on one example of a girl with depression. Rita has been on a downward spiral throughout her first semester at the largest high school she has attended. Rita talks with her history teacher about how she feels isolated and anxious about her schoolwork and the demands of high school. The article talks about how she feels she has no one to turn to and it affects her schoolwork and social life. Depression in kids in high school or at a young age is difficult to know about because they don’t seek for help because they feel that no one cares about the way they feel.
There are many effects of Rita’s depression that are helpful toward my research. School personnel play a huge role in identifying depression. Teachers, administrators, and school staff in general must be knowledgeable about depression because of how much it can affect academic and interpersonal behavior at school. Depression is significantly correlated with academic grades. According to this article, students with higher ratings of depression are more likely to not graduate high school. Depressed students give up more quickly on difficult tasks.
5) Report from reputable database
Hosansky, D. (2004, February 13). Youth suicide. CQ Researcher, 14, 125-148. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/
The main focus of this article is suicide. It explains the suicide rates and how they have gone up when it comes to young people. In recent years about 2,800 people have killed themselves between the ages 10-21 annually. Of those 2,800 about 1,600 fall within the ages of 15-19, when one is most emotional being that they are in the prime years of their teens. One in five high school students have at least thought about committing suicide while a third of that number has actually attempted. Many kids throughout high school experience some sort of rejection, whether its failing an exam, getting dumped by their significant other, or not making a sports team if they mix the feeling of rejection with their impulsivity the result at times becomes suicide. This article is on an extremely upsetting topic, but also a great topic to be informed about.
This article benefits my research but more generally my group’s research. Suicide remains the third leading cause of death among 15-21 year olds, this means that more teenagers are dying at their own hands rather than from a disease of some sort. Suicidal youngsters are hard to recognize and difficult to treat. Few schools have programs that help counsel emotionally disturbed kids, and most parents, teachers and friends think that the child is just being a normal emotional teenager. Although the article does not directly mention how it is affecting students academics, one can infer, from the other articles I have read about, that the stresses and anxiety that school often puts on a child does not benefit this situation and can only damage their capability of succeeding in school.